The Brain on Music
Music is processed in many different parts of the brain. Until recently, scientists had little idea how it was affected when a person was listening or playing music. With the advent of functional brain imaging in the 1990s, it was possible to study what happens to the brain when it was stimulated by music.
The interactive feature below shows the major computational centers that come into play when the brain is on music.
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A real Winnipeg favourite, this quartet brought its urban-rootsy, homespun sound to the Park Theatre. Their guitars, banjo, accordion, bass and drums are topped by the sweetest vocals and enhanced, strangely, by the theramin. Their sound captures the duality of the prairies in that it is at once contemporary and old-fashioned, dark and light, lonely yet cosy.